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55 ESTHERVILLE DAILY NEWS DEPARTMENT OF HIST. ARCHIVES DES MOINES. I A. BY FAR THE LARGEST CITY, RURAL, TOTAL CIRCULATION EMMET COUNTY 96th Year; No. 22 EsthcrvUlc, Emmet County, Iowa, Thursday, October 31, 1963 Week Copy Rain, Snow End Severe Drought Across Nation Relief Comes to Rockies Area CHICAGO (AP)-Raln, snow and cloudy skies covered Northern areas of the nation today from the Rockies into New England.

More rain and snow pelted northern New England, ending the long drought in most areas. One to three inches of fresh snow fell in eastern parts of Maine and the season's first; wiritry storm dumped more than 18 inches of snow in some parts of the state. Snow also fell in Wyoming and Colorado, with four inches in Leadville, and smaller amounts in Lander and Casper, Wyo. In the Midwest, still in need of-heavy, steady rains to ease drought conditions, light rain fell from southern Wisconsin westward through South Dakota and northern Nebraska as well as into northern sections of Illinois and Indiana and er Lower Michigan. The rain and snow in New England prompted officials in Rhode Island to lift restrictions on outdoor burning and the public use of woodlands.

Restrictions also were lifted in most of New Hampshire but continued in Vermont and three New Hampshire counties as well in New York and New Jersey. Sunny skies were indicated for most of the Atlantic Coast states except Maine. But more rain was in prospect from the southern Great Lakes region and lower Ohio Valley westward into the Central Rockies. -Mostly. vailed in other parts of the nation.

Former Bunnell Man Dies DUNNELL Robert Appelquist 29, St. Paul, former Dunnell resident and of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Appelquist Dunnell, died today at a. m.

at Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul. Mr. Appelauist was taken suddenly ill at his home in St. Paul 10 days ago and was taken at once to the hospital.

He had been unconscious for the past week. His parents, who have been in St. Paul with their daughter-in-law and granddaughters, are expected to return to Dunnell this evening. Born May 7, 1934 at Dunnell, Robert attended the Dunnell elementary schools and graduated from high school at Shcrburn. He attended Gustavus Adolphus College at St.

Peter for two years and then transferred to the University of Minnesota from which he graduated with a degree in civil engineering. Since graduation he had been employed by an architectural firm in St. Paul. Mr. Appelquist was married Aug.

10, 1957, to Patricia Johnson of Stillwater, also a graduate of the University of Minnesota. He is survived by his widow, Patricia; two daughters, Sandra, 3, and Patty, his parents and one sister, Mrs. Don (Susan) Lund of Hector, Minn. Funeral services are pending. Nothing Can Stop United States Mail OLYMPIA, Wash.

(AP)-Nel- ther snow, nor sleet, nor the lack of a stamp stops the U.S. mail. Gov. Albert D. RoselUni's office said Wednesday he'd received a letter with a nickel taped in place of a stamp.

It had been run through the post office cancelling machine. Weather Forecast Cloudy, colder, Low last night 40; noon 45. Weather information page 8 Two Lost Airmen Found MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) young airmen, lost on a hunting trip, were found today but four other persons still were missing in Maine wildlands whipped by two successive storms. State police said Charles Balonis, 21,. of Weymouth, and Larry Baker, 20, of Charles City, Iowa, apparently were in good condition.

They disappeared Tuesday while hunting near Van Buren, some 20 miles north of Loring Air Force Base. They were flown by helicopter to the base hospital. Relays of rescue teams pressed searches for two other hunters, and a man and woman lost on mile-high Mt. Katahdin. Their task was hindered by deep snow and continued high winds.

The ground search for a woman and a park ranger in the rugged basin area of mile-high Mt. Katahdin, north of Millinocket, was reinforced today by four experienced mountain climbers from the University of Maine. The missing woman, Mrs. Margaret Ivusic, about 50, of Boston, was camping on the mountain in balmy weather last weekend with a companion, Mrs. Helen Mower, Concord, Mrs.

Ivusic became exhausted Monday and stopped on the trail while Mrs. Mower went to the Baxter State Park Camp of ranger Ralph Heath, 37, of Sherman, for assistance. Heath traced the trail used by the two widows and once exchanged calls with Mrs. Ivusiq Monday but could not locate her. He set out again Tuesday morning just before a heavy snowstorm hit the mountain and hasn't been heard from since.

In Van Buren, searchers found a car used by two missing airmen stationed at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. An air and ground search, however, failed to turn up any other trace of the pair. Airmen 2.C Charles Balonis of Weymouth, and Larry Baker, of Charles City, Iowa were caught in Tuesday's snow while hunting in woods five miles south of Van Buren, near the Canadian border. In Edinburg, near Bangor, an estimated 50 searchers covered large sections of woodland without success for Charles A. Jellison, 69, a retired banker and postal official.

Jellison has been missing since Monday when he went hunting. Near Presque Isle a search party set out Wednesday night for John Flannery, 19, of Fort Fairfield, reported missing on a hunting trip in the Squaw Pan Lake area. Six Reach Finals DALLAS (AP) Six young girls were a me finalists Thursday in the Miss Tern Age America contest. The winner will be named Friday night. "IT'S A BIG ONE!" says Randy Shubert, 3, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Don Shubert of Estherville as he and sister, Linda, 8, examine large pumpkin given them by their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mix of Armstrong. Pumpkin measures 48-inches in circumference.

(Photo, Barry Huntsinger) Shortcut To Moon Flight Saves Money WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is taking a detour in its, apace and hopes' it will be a shortcut'tot he moon with about $50 million less in toll charges. It eliminated Wednesday four flights from the Apollo program flights in which a low-powered Saturn rocket would have carried two astronauts into orbit aboard a stripped down Apollo spacecraft. The flights were scheduled to begin in 1985. Skipping this step will mean a nine-month delay in the first orbital flights of Apollo astronauts. The next flights are to be the orbiting of the full three- man Apollo teams in a complete Apollo craft with a more powerful rocket l-B, in 1966.

A spokesman said the space agency feels that by concentrating on the stripped down program the United States has a better chance of putting a man on the moon by the target date of 1970. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the action would save some $50 million and help it stay within its stripped-down budget for this fiscal year $5.35 billion. Meanwhile the astronauts will get their training in two-man Gemini spacecraft. Interstate To Save Motorist 12 Minutes AMES Highway Commission officials say that when the new stretch of Interstate 80 north of Iowa City is opened Nov. 15 motorists will save about 12 minutes getting by that city.

Because of the present gap in the interstate motorists have to go through. Iowa City. The stretch to be opened will extend the interstate six miles further west of the town. Gives up Driver's License at 82 SPENCER, Iowa (AP)-Robert Larsen, who has driven a car for 50 years without an accident, not even a fender scratch, went to the Iowa Highway Patrol district headquarters here Wednesday and turned in his drivers license. Larsen said he is low 32, his oye-sight isn't so good any more and he didn't think it was safe to drive.

At Ringsted The Ringsted town election will be held next Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the library, with the polls open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mayor Robert E. Nielsen is unopposed for the office of Mayor.

There are seven candidates running for the five councilman vacancies. The incumbents, Kermit Christiansen, Carl C. Knapp Harold Kramer and Wayne McKay are running again and John J. Emick( Roger Jensen, and William A. Pedersen are also candidates.

Peter N. Hansen is a new candidate for park commissioner with George Neve and Earl E. Summers, incumbents, seeking re-election. Judges on the town election board are Wayne McKay, Ordean Tow and Harold Kramer. Clerks are Kermit Christiansen, Carl Knapp and Manno Pelter- sen.

1,000 u. s. Troops Go Home BULLETIN SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) The commander of South Viet Nam's 4th Army Brig. Gen. Huynh Van Cao, offered a 13,000 reward today to any unit In his command rescuing three U.S.

Army men believed captured by Communist gerrillas. TOKYO top military commander in South) Viet Nam said today at least 1,000 of the 15,000 American troops in Viet Nam will be on their way home within two months. The statement by Gen. Paul D. Harkins, made in Saigon to a correspondent of the Stars and Stripes, was in line with a White House announcement earlier this month.

The White House said after an inspection trip by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to South. Viet Nam that 1,000 American military personnel who have been training Vietnamese troops probably could be Withdrawn by the end of this year. Harkins told the Stars and Stripes "victory in the sense it would apply to this kind of war" is just months away. "There won't be any victory parades as such," Harkins said, "because there will be sporadic incidents for a long time to come.

But I can safely say that the end of the war is in sight." (Communist guerrillas routed a 120-man company of crack South Vietnamese special forces 140 miles southwest of Sai- gon Tuesday. The guerrillas killed 20 of the government troops, wounded 30 and were believed to have taken 15 men prisoner, including all three American military advisers with the company.) Secretary McNamara and D. Taylor, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported after a visit to Viet Nam last month they believed the need for major American involvement in the war there would be ended by December 1965. Stars and Stripes correspondent Steve Stibbens said Harkins' personnel chief told him detailed plans for reduction of U.S.

troops in Viet Nam have been drawn up and that approval of these is expected "within a few days" from Pacific Command headquarters at Honolulu. Stibbens also quoted Maj. Gen. Charles J. Timmes, who commnds the U.S.

Military Assistance Advisory Group in Viet Nam, as saying he feels "we have completed" the job of training South Viet Nam's armed forces. Leo Elthon's Wife Is Dead MASON CITY (AP) Mrs. Synneva Elthon, 67, wife of long-time state government official Leo Elthon of Fertile, died here Wednesday after a short illness. Elthon was a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for 10' sessions before he was) elected lieutenant governor for the first of two terms in 1952. When Gov.

William S. Beardsley was killed in an auto accident Nov. 21, 1954, Elthon occupied the governor's chair until the 1955 inauguration. Elthon retired from politics for a time but later served a term in the Senate. The Elthons were married at Fertile Feb.

28, 1922. They had four daughters and two sons. "Moldy Stuff 9 He Found Worth $54,200 COOLER WASHINGTON (AP)-A lilgh school teacher who had to have another look at the Gettysburg battlefield got the glorious news "moldy stuff" he scooped up last June is worth $54,200. "I feel sick. My legs are still shaking.

Wow." And then, "I'm waiting for some confirmation." That was George C. Rapport's response when told by a newsman that the cache of mutilated currency he turned in to the Secret Service in New York last July has a redemption value that the Treasury sets at $54,200. Rapport has been waiting! since 'then to hear from the government. The Massapequa Park, N.Y., man said that cept for his wife Ruth, he has told nobody else about his find. "It would just be my luck to run into something and get into trouble," said Rapport, 46, a social studies teacher at Bellmore, N.Y., high school.

Last June 26 the vacationing Rapports and their two children, Eileen 17, and Jack, 13, visited the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania. They toured the Civil War site, but Rapport said: "You know how on a tour. Things go so fast you can't appreciate everything. So we went back." Next day Rapport was walking by the Eternal Light Peace Memorial at the Gettysburg National Military Park. His wife and two children were in their car nearby.

On the ground lay a rotted bundle. "There was no one around," Rapport recalls. He picked It up had no idea what was inside" and placed it in the trunk of the car. Later, he put it in the cellar of his home. "I couldn't possibly spend any of it.

It didn't look like currency. It was too moldy. "About 10 days later, I didn't know what to do with it, so I reported it to the Secret Service in New He says he was called to Washington by the Secret Service about three weeks ago to tell his story. W. T.

Howell, deputy treasurer of the United States, said the mutilated currency was warded to Washington to see how much was redeemable. Howell checked the National Park Service to see if it had any claim under law. He was told it did not. Howell then notified the Internal Revenue Service since such findings are subject to federal income tax. That is where the matter stands now, Howell said, with the Revenue Service checking on whether it has a tax claim.

Howell said he could foresee no hitche3, that once the Revenue Service is done Rapport will get his money. Rapport knows how he'll spend the money, "I want to send my kids to school. That's enough." Testimony Begins in $70,000 Damage Suit; Plaintiff on Stand C. R. Hedrick John Stockdale Three Candidates For 2 Council Posts (Editor's Note: Third in a series about candidates in the Nov.

5 municipal election.) The two at-Iarge city council posts will be sought by three candidates. Two of them are newcomers to the council race. C. R. Hedrick is the incumbent candidate and John Stockdale and Dr.

J. P. Clark are seeking council positions for the first time. "Odors are being studied by present councilmen in an effort to curtail We want to make sure we know exactly where they are coming from before we spend money to correct them," Hedrick said. He says if re-elected he will continue his policy of good, sound government.

The electric plant owned by the city has become one of the best in the state, according to Hedrick, and the long-range street improvement program, which he terms "very successful," is nearing completion. An expanding program for the electric plant is being studied and before the city enters into contract with the federal bureau of Reclamation for additional power, the economics of the measure need to be studied carefully, he said. Hedrick has been a member of the council for the past six years and served prior terms in the early 1940's. He has been a resident of Estherville since 1924 and has operated a cleaning establishment here for the past 39 years. Stockdale, a lifetime resident of Estherville, expresses disappointment over the course of action taken by city councilmen in attempting to correct the city's odor problems.

Stronger emphasis is needed on the recreation program of the city and outdated traffic signal lights need to be replaced, he believes. Stockdale said he understands city police have studied the signal light situation and have recommended changes, although the council has delayed action. A need for pedestrian-motor vehicle control at the east side of Central Ave. bridge is also among the list of improvements Stockdale thinks the city needs to make. He explained that there is a large amount of pedestrian traffic, especially in the summer when the swimming pool is open, at the bridge.

He considers the problem serious and he feels something can be worked out with the Highway Commission to correct the problem. The long-range street improvement program which has been carried out by previous councilmen rates high on Stockdale's list of accomplishments by the city. He believes the program needs to be continued. Stockdale graduated from high school here in 1941 and then attended Carleton College, Northfield, where he graduated with a major in economics. He then attended a school sponsored by Traveler's Insurance Company and later entered the Insurance, grain and loan business with his father in Estherville and still is in the same business.

He enlisted in the Army and served three and a half years in ordnance and field artillery, in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxemburg. Dr. J. P. Clark, who was in the medical profession in Estherville for 32 years prior to his retirement about a year ago, is interested in helping to continue "the good city government we've always had." Clark does not believe that-a councilman's job should have political implications, but instead should be filled with competent men who have proven themselves in their community.

He feels that whether or not he will be placed in office depends on the impression he has formed with the people of Estherville during his years of service as a doctor. Dr. Clark has lived in Estherville for 32 years, after graduating from the school of medicine at State University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 1925. He served in the Army for three years, from 1942 to 1945, in the European Theater. During his tenure as an Estherville physician, he has served as Chief of Staff at the hospital here, among other positions.

Dr. Clark says he is now retired, for the most part, and he believes he has the necessary time to learn of city problems and to take part in their solution. Result of Two-Car Accident Trial of a $70,000 damage suit got under way in district court here yesterday before Judge G. W. Stillman of Algona.

Mrs. Erwin (Mavis) Loewenberg and her daughter, Carol, 5, have asked this amount from Verle Sawyer of Spencer for injuries and damages allegedly received in a two-car collision on County Highway five miles south of Highway 9 on Feb. 24, 1983. Sawyer's wife was fatally injured in the accident. Mrs.

Loewenberg is asking for $50,000 and her daughter, Carol, $20,000. A second suit brought by Erwin Loewenberg agauj- st Sawyer for $35,000 has been continued. Testimony for the plaintiffs was expected to be completed by today and the defendant was expected to begin testimony this afternoon. Leo Fitzgibbons of Fitzgibbons and Fltz- gibbons represents Loewenbergs and Mabry Cornwall of Cornwall, Cornwall and Avery of Spencer represents Sawyer. Mrs.

Loewenberg was on the witness stand this morning and testified that she remembered nothing about the accident. She recalls that she, her husband and started for Esther? ville shortly before 2 p.m. that day and she remembers turning north on County J. She said she has no recollection of anything connected with the accident. She told the jury that she remembers vaguely talking with Orden Tow, who took her and Carol to Holy Family Hospital in his car, and recalls hearing Dr.

Hugo Lindholm say something in the operating room at the hospital about lacerations on her face leaving scars. She said she didn't remember anything else until regaining consciousnss in her hospital room and seeing her husband and Dr. Lindholm there. Mrs. Loewenberg showed the jury scars from the lacerations on her left cheek and forehead and testified as to the injuries received by Carol.

She broke into sobs while telling the jury of Carol's injuries. She said she and Carol were in the hospital eight days and that she was unable to do the Turn to page 8, column 5 TRICK-OR-TREAT'ERS get a nod and wink of approval from pumpkin buried amidst corn stalks. Tonight area youngsters will be out in force to take part in Halloween activities. Pumpkin head was carved and designed by Doug Hall of Estherville. (Photo, Barry Huntsinger).